When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Vegas; one of the few places still encouraging men in their fifties to dress like their in a boy-band from the 80's.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

You have to first experience what you want to express

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.